Mary Lou Miner, in summer sportswear, poses on top of a concrete-block bomb shelter. The owner has hopefully attached a mailbox to the wall by the entrance and put a water filter inside. A sign, "Normal Ground Level" is staked in the ground. Photo caption reads: "Beautiful Mary Lou Miner suns herself atop a new West Los Angeles bomb shelter at 10333 Santa Monica Boulevard, dreamed up by John Vale and executed by Arthur Lowe. If we're not bombed, it'll make a good den, play room, or dog house". Photo dated: Apr. 7, 1951.
Miner, Mary Lou Nuclear bomb shelters--California--Los Angeles Fallout shelters--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Vale, John Lowe, Arthur
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